Heh, I noticed that someone changed the title. Well, I guess it’s outdated in “assemble EVERYTHING” land. (returns to noobland, where they need things with GUIs, even though the program is a buggy mess that likes eating effort.)

And there’s the rub: You gotta use 2 things to accomplish what 1 thing currently does.
Do not underestimate the importance of user friendliness. You’ll be hardpressed to out-date FEditor if you don’t take your user base into account.

The other thing is that even if it’s technically better and it does things without fucking the rom, if it adds just one step, or two or three extra clicks over FEditor’s process, it’s worthless to me. If I’m editing text, I just type in feditor, hit apply, and hit save. Two or three extra clicks doubles the tedium of applying changes, and when you multiply that over a hundred or a thousand text edits, it becomes a real slogfest. I already hate using FEditor and Nightmare at the same time since they overwrite each other. I want less tedium and less clicks, not more.

Although the actual process may involve more, a text editor does nothing to your ROM so you’re likely to already have that open. With FEditor you not only need to close everything else, you need to navigate to FEdtior (its dist folder, at least), and open it, then navigate to your ROM, then Save it and Close it, then open it again, and even then it sometimes messes up. You also need to know the textID of what you want to edit.

I think my way of doing text is much, much easier once you understand it. Maybe I can ask @InvdrZim13 for a testimonial since right now SoA is cobbled together from both methods.

Oh yeah, custom definitions also save keystrokes when making the text itself.[Silent...] is much shorter than [ToggleMouthMovement]...[ToggleMouthMovement]. Zim especially abused the definitions much more than I expected. I’ll let it be up to him whether he posts any of his text though.

I’ll edit this in a sec with some text I guess, but overall I like the parsed more because it doesn’t break random text entries and you can put it all in at once and edit it quicker than with FEditor (at least it seems quicker to me)

[Spoiler=Words]
[OML][LF][Belle][0x01]
[OMR][LF][Sawyer][0x01][OML]
[TS]Sawyer![4.] You’re alive![AN]
[OMR]
Yes,[4.] I must admit I have a[N]
similar reaction every morning.[AN]
You of course,[4.] I had no worries about.[AN]
Firstly,[4.] because of Oona,[4.][N]
and secondly because you’d[AN]
have a hard time listening to[N]
Death when he tells you to stay dead.[AN]
Now,[4.] it’s time to have some fun.[AN]
[OML]
Never change,[4.] Sawyer.[AN]
By Velhari,[4.] it’s good[N]
to see you again![AN][TS][X]
[/Spoiler]

Here’s some text that I formatted for our forum hack, just to show different style of text formatting.

I focused more on readability then on keystrokes.

[spoiler=words]
[.v…][LoadArchPortrait]

[.....v][LoadAshPortrait]
[...v..][LoadColorzPortrait]
[ToggleSmile]
Yaaay! All of the[N]
bandits are dead![A][ToggleSmile]
[.v....]
I don't know if that's[N]
something you should be[AN]
announcing so cheerfully.[A]
[.....v]
What are you going on[N]
about, silly Arch?[A]
[.v....]
... Ugh, never mind. I[N]
just need to find Kaga[AN]
and end this already.[A]
[ClearFace]
[.....v][ClearFace]
[..v...][LoadAshPortrait]
Whew. He's such a handful.[A]
[...v..]
Yeah. We better see[N]
what he's up to.[A]
[X]

For what it’s worth I actually hate using FEditor so the less I have to rely on it the better.

It would, in my opinion be much more efficient to do things like TEX1 CH1_MID_01 than TEX1 0x813 AND be able to look at all your text in one single file or even organise it by chapter. Plus there’s the whole thing about not having to worry about where FEditor writes data or overwriting your own events etc.

The way the new parser sets up, you only need to access the textID once. Then it’s in your EA insallation files and you can refer to it with a more informative name. And when editing ,you can use a folder structure to find the text you want, and you only need to edit the text file.